I am aware I haven't posted on here for rather a long time now, as I have moved to my RRVA blog, since I started trading properly in April this year. However, it seems appropriate that I say it on here too.
I will VERY soon be a full time VA!!!! Yay, whoop and hurrah!!! Slightly off my 6 month hope, and it will be nearer a year when I achieve my goal but not bad!!!
Suffice it to say by February 2010, mission accomplished! Then to drive the business onwards and make it the success I know it will be.
I'm just in the process of setting up my R&R VA Services Facebook fan page. Won't be in time to get enough followers to get my vanity facebook url but it will be good for business!!!
I'll let you know when it's up and finished and you can all come and massage my ego by becoming my fans hehehe!!
I attended the LCB Depot TCB Social tonight and have to say it was great. Some useful but short presentations with opportunities to meet with business services afterwards as well as mingle. I met some interesting new people, people interested in research, people who already know me and friends! So enjoyed myself.
I have been thinking a lot recently about how I should approach these evenings (having been reading The Dream PA's Virtual Assistant Handbook) and I went with just being myself. Helpful, offering advice or to put people in touch and using my local knowledge to point people in the right direction. I hope that this strategy engages peoples interest and leads to paid work. Plus it is much less nerve wracking attending as myself rather than getting worried about representing my company, I mean I AM my company after all!!!!
I went to Creative Coffee Club yesterday too and made some good connections there too. Bring on the next event! The more I do this the more likely it is to pay off!
Yep today I received a few from a Business Link advisor. Our meeting was great, helpful and informative if a little one sided (from her I mean, for once I shut up!!).
Hoping to implement some of what she told me (for my bullet pointed list from the meeting click here). I really need to get on with trying to source some funding for my basic equipment needs i.e. get a lovely iMac!!!! Interestingly advisor was a typical PC and went on about limiting my market by going Mac due to compatibility issues??!!! Oh well, no point in Mac evangilising there!!
And then it's network, network, network.....
After a fairly long discussion of with Ben my web designer my website is finally up as I want it to look! So please go and check it out.....www.rrva.co.uk
Now to promote it lots!
Also formatting a few word documents for information, client consultation etc. packs ready for any follow ups I have after tomorrows event. Hopefully I'll get at least 1!
Hopefully won't be up too late or need to be up too early.
The redesign for my website is nearly complete and I really like it! Thanks Ben Harvey! It needs to be live by Wednesday when I attend my first networking event, when I hand out my business card I want the website people then look at to represent me properly rather than the instantsite I currently have.
Fingers crossed for some business anyway!
And this has lead me to wonder why I'm putting myself through this stress. It's having the virtually full time job, children to look after and then a business to set up, something has gotta give (you've probably noticed due to cleaner desire comments in previous posts that it is mostly the housework to get ignored)! I'm not so much a 5 to 9er but more of an 8 to 11er!
I do REALLY want RRVA to fly but right at this moment in time I'm just knackered. And will probably continue to feel like this until RRVA is my full time job and well established......
Yes it is finally live!!!! Please check out RRVA and let me have your feedback please so I can improve it. And yes I know it needs some serious SEO work on it so some direction would be good........
Thanks x
RRVA
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I am aware I haven't posted on here for rather a long time now, as I have moved to my RRVA blog, since I started trading properly in April this year. However, it seems appropriate that I say it on here too.
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